Seamless high-splice stocking



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R. W. SCOTT SEAMLESS HIGH SPLICE STOCKING Filed octj1 4. 1922 2 SheetsSheet l I April. 22 1924.

fialya 1,491,756 R. w. SCOTT SEAMLESS HIGH SPLICE STOCKING Filed Oct. 14 1 922 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 '15 disclosed certain e sired point or points,

' rat? noses w. sco'rr, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR 'ro HEMPHILL COMPANY, orcni 'rmu, FALLS, axons ISLAND, A CORPORATION or MASSACHUSETTS.

SEAMLESS HIGH-SPLICE S'IIOCKIN'G.

Application filed October 14, 1922. Serial No. 594,524.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUFUS W. Soon, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, in the county of 5 New York and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Seamless High- Splice Stockings, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

y ..-This invention relates to seamless stockings. In order that the principle of the invention may be readily understood, I have tion.

' Fig. 2 is an, enlarged detail of portion of i the stocking at the high splice and representing the stitch formation; p

f Fig. 3'is a View similar to Fig. [1 of a somewhat modified form of my invention;

Fig. 4 is a view similar to'Fig. 2', but illustratingthat form of my invention shown in Fig. 3

a circular machine having means for formmg the heel and toepockets, such as narrowing, and widening pickers. Whilev any 40 suitable mechanism may be employed in the production .of the stocking, the machine should be equipped with means for introducing the main knitting yarn, and for introducing a reinforcing yarn oryarnsjat the demeans for changing the stitch leg as the knitting progresses.

My invention pertains'more particularly to the so-called high splice of 66 which is combined with a mock seam which ength in the may be a structural variation of the stitches,

such, for example, as a line of tuck stitches of the length of the high splice or other suitable length, or may be a sewed line of embodiments of the stock-- ing of my invention in the accompanying The stocking' or m invention isLa so-called circular or seamless stocking knitted uponand desirably with the stocking stripes and being of any suitable character,

,but desirably either of tuck stitches orformed as a line of sewing machine stitches.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, and first to that form of my invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the stocking is indicated generally at 1,-it having desirably a seamless heel 2 and toe 3. One of the said very narrow stripes of the narrow high splice is indicated-at 4 inFig. l, and the two very narrow stripes are indicated at 4, 5 in Fig 2. he stockingjmay be, knitted from any suitable material,-as, for example, silk. The stocking may be knitted in any usual or approved manner until the top of the high splice 4t, 5 is reached, though, if desired, the line of tuck stitches maycommence at or near the top of the stocking insteadof at the top ofthe high splice, as indicated in Fig.

1, where-such line of tuck-stitches is indicated at 5. For convenience of idescri )tion it will be. assumed that the line of tuck stitches begins at the top of the'hi gh splice. In'such case, and in any suitable manneiyl in any suitable manner,- as by the, employment of a tucking cam which co-acts with one or more needles having special length butts.-

The narrow stripese, 5 are in this forlnof introduce one or more lines of tuck stitches,

my invention produced by introducing a reinforcingyarn 9 from a suitable yarnguide or finger, and to sufiicient ne'edlesto form a stripe 4 of the desired width, whichmay be greater than the width actually shown in Fi me rely. When the reinforcing yarn has reached a wale adjacent to or, it may be actually adjoining the nearest line of tuck stitches, said thread is floated across or past the line or troduced to the needles at the opposite side 2,. said figure being diagrammatic 1 lines of tuck stitches, and is reinvention the mock seam does not engage thethe narrow stripe 5 of the width of the.

stripe 4, after which the said reinforcing thread is floated from the outer edge of the stripe 5 back to' the outer edge of the-stripe 4, whereupon the described. procedure is repeated until the entire high splice composed of the stripes 4 and 5 is completed,and the entire line of tuck stitches is also completed.

It will be observed that-in this form of my invention I have provided a very narrow high splice itself composed of two still narrower longitudinal stripes between which of any suitable character. If it be a strucis a mock seam that. does notenterintoor bind down the floating threads and does not penetrate the high splice itself.

. Inthat form of m invention shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the stoc ing, which otherwise may be the same as that shown in Fig.1, is provided with a verynarrow-high splice composed of two very narrow longitudinal stripes, one of which is indicated at 10 in Fig. 3 and which" are both shown at 10, 11 in Fi 4. The composite high splice is desir abfy of s'ubstantiall' the width indicated in Fig. 1, but the-rein orcing thread 12, which" g g j the stocking 1s composed is preferably 811k,

is mtroduced to the needles for the 'strip'e'10,

is merely interknitted with the needles at that side of the stocking where the stripe 10 is formed, and at the inner edge of said-stripe thethread is floated back tothe outer edge of the same stripe, and this process is com tinued until the entire stripe 1O is'completed.

Simultaneously with the formation of the stripe 10, the stripe 11 is formed andin the same way, and either from an entirely d1stinct thread or in any other suitable manner.

- Thus I form a narrow high splice composed of two --verynarrow, longitudinal stri es, each of which has incorporated therewit av reinforcing thread, and between said stripes 10 and 11 there exists several rows or wales of non-reinforced stitches. After the stock-.-

ing is completed, I run a line of sewing machlne stitches 13jbetween the stripes 10 and 11,'and at least to the upper edge of said stripes, but desirably to the upper end of the stocking, or at-least to the welt portion thereof. 1

It will be seen that in this form of my infloating threads, and that therefore both .formsmf my, invention have this common characteristic of non-engagement of floating threads by the mock seam.

While I have specifically 'shown'and described. mock seams composed ofituck stitches and sewing machine stitches, it is to .be understood that an suitable ty Yes of mock seam may be emp oyed rovide they do not enter the substance oft e high splice "or bind down=floating threads thereofi; a.

The single reinforcing yarn '9 of that" tom of my invention shown in Figs. and 2 and memes auxiliary yarn or yarnsare either elevated or depressed, and the auxiliary yarn is delivered or the auxiliary arms are delivered to the'other needles,- whic of course, may be of any suitable number, at each side of; the back'median line. of the stocking.

tural' variation of the knitted fabric itmay 4 be composed of tuck stitches or draw stitches I have stated'that the mock seam may be I andany suitable number of wales or lines of-such stitches may be employed. For example, instead of em loying t'wo wales of tuck stitohes separa by a wale of :plai-nv stitches, I may employ two adjoining wales oftuck' stitches, or a. single wale of tuck stitches. I have found that two .adjoinin wales of "tuck stitches produce mock seams 0 pro er proportions.. v

T et read of WhlClhthB main portion of and the reinforcing thread or threads may be, of some contrastin example, as cotton. n such case, an

' material, such for i re 'ferring to that form of my invention. shown in'Fig. 2,-the mock seam is composed wholly of the silk throughout, and therefore contrasts markedly with the adjacent" reinforceiioo ment areas, which are themselves both com? posed of s1lk,.'and c otton or other. non-silkthreads.

Wh1le'I'hav'e shown my invention as em: 108

bodied in anarr'ow high-splice, it is evident that within the scope. of my. invention the P ay? be of y suitable; width and may be even of the fullwidthofthe- For examplqit may be of a tapering..or substantial disclosed and claimed 'in-Ixny co-pendln apy triangularshape', the apex of the triangle being uppermost, as shown in;

'lication Serial Number-592,676, filed. cto- I er 6, 192%.. for seamless-stocking and method of making the same-said applica- .tion disclosing a mock] seam of tuck stitches and a stripe paralleling said line of tuckstitches at ea side thereof with float yarn connections betweenf the auxiliary yarn of said stripes.

Having thus team we muse-a ms an bodiments {of my invention 1 and" the best modes known to me for producing the. same,-

li desire it tobeunderstood that. although p specific terms are employed, they are need do not herein claim. the subjectmatter in a generic and descriptive sense and not for purposes of limitation, the scope of the -invention being set forth the following inforcing yarn being floated at me back of the said two stripes, said stripes being spaced apart, and a mock seam between said stripes and extending longitudinally thereof.

3.'A so-called seamless stocking having a high splice of substantially less width than the heel and itself composed of.. two.very narrow stripes wherein reinforcing yarn is interknitted with the regular yarn, thereinforcing yarnbein'g floated at the back of the said two stripes,'said stripes being spaced apart and across which space the yarn-is floated, and a mock seani constituting a structural variation between said stripes and extending longitudinally thereof.

4. A so-called seamless stocking having a high splice .of substantially less width than the heel and itself composed of two very narrow-stripes wherein reinforcing yarn is interknitted with. the regular yarn, the re-' inforcingyarn being floated at the-back of the said two stripes, said stripes being spaced apart and across which space the yarn is floated, and a mock seam of tuck stitches between said stripes and extending longitudinally thereof.

5. A so-called seamless stocking knitted from a main yarn and having a high splice composed of two narrow lengthwise extending, adjacent stripes wherein a reinforcing yarn is interknitted with the'main yarn, said reinforcing am being of a character con-- trasting wit the main yarn, said stripes .ing spaced slightly apart, and a being spaced slightly apart, and a mock seam between said stripesof the high splice,

said mock seam being composed of a line of tuck stitches formed only of the material of the main yarn, whereby said mock seam contrasts with the reinforcing yarns of the said stripes.

6. A socalled seamless stocking knitted from a main yarn and having a high splice composed of two narrow lengthwise extending, adjacent stripes wherein a reinforcing yarn is interknitted with the main yarn,

said reinforcing yarn being of 'a character contrasting with the main y'arn, said stripes being spaced slightly apart, and a mock seam between said stripes of the high splice,-

said mock seam being composed of a double line of tuck stitches, there being a line of regular stitches therebetween:

A so-called seamless stocking having a high splice which is composed of two stripes wherein reinforcing yarn is interknitted with the regular yarn, said stripes being placed slightly apart and a mockseam between the stripes of said high splice and extending longitudinally; thereof;

-8. A so-called seamless stocking knitted from a main yarn and having a high splice composed of two narrow lengthwise extend- I ing, adjacent stripes wherein a reinforcing yarn is interknitted with the main yarn, said reinforcing yarn'being of a character. contrasting with the main yarn, said stripes bemock seam between said stripes of the high splice.

'9. A so-called so less stocking knitted from a main yarn f trasting withthe main yarn, said stripes being spaced slightly apart, and a mock seam between said stripes of the high splice, said mock seam being composed only of the material of the main yarn, whereby said mock seam contrasts with the main and reinforcing yarns of the said stripes.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

RUFUS W. SCOTT.

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